Pit Champion Strategies

[Aimor N`Velahr]

<DIV>I am currently in the middle of testing various assassin strategies on the Pit Champion. Other professions have linked some threads, discussion, and tactics together, but in looking through Assassin for days I havn't seen much so I figured I'd throw it out there. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I first tried him at 40th. The fight was my closest one and I had no plan. I got him down to about 25pct and we morphed out of the arena teeth deals into the spectator area, but I still had to escape.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>At 41st I seem to do worse, largely because of a power gap in skills and equipment. I have the journeymen boots and bone dirk waiting at 42nd, which I would anticipate to increase my odds.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I have in my estimation incredibly good gear. I am 40/41/42, but I am a master armorer and I've been fortunate to have a decent amount of money on occasion. I have imbued ebon breastplate and leggings, rhodium and ruby rings. I wield the SSOY and PGT. I do NOT have the flowing black silk sash yet though, which would help.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Has anyone had success winning at 41st? Is there a "Sweet" spot level for assassins that they are finding they can beat him, but not at other levels? </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>My tactics are to use potions. I have dozens of them. I have read all the warrior threads. I have adept III bloodthirster and condemning blade. I open combat with CB, I stun, assassin mark him, melee debuff, moor, restun, then I kite him with a few of my arrow styles. I am going to try tonight after getting damage shield potions, some more resist potions, some debuff poisons, and some legendary/rare poisons. I'll check back how things go.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I'll fight him again at 42nd with the FBSS, the SBD, SSOY, and probably some ebon bracers and report the results then also.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Aimor Velahr.</DIV>

[Jakr]

if you have a  bow  and your pgt  kite em :/   he will still dot you but its no where near as bad as his melee.   after the last patch  he became much easier to kill you shouldnt be having any probs anymore. <div></div>

[Skratttt]

<DIV>At low 40 definitively use T5 legendary quality poisons they will make HUGE diff in your DPS with bow...i used the purple one which is nice if you using regular iron arrows...if using fulginate (which actualy seem to be more effective for some reason) use the red legendary t5 poison with its nice 305 dd (with faltering blast this can do majour dmg to him)  Oh yeah get a nice T5 rare longbow and resist potions </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I thought of buying silence poison but no one has it on market it seems 2-3 procs with this would make it way easier...so i use poison debuff or magic debuff (for glimmering strike from bow)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Even though all my bow skills are Adept 3 quality it was allways a 50/50 who won the fight ..to win i needed some pgt procs(offhand) and my Augmented bp heal to go off early and often to counter the dot</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I start fight with Spiting viper, then snare him with regular skill then use snare doll ....then faltering blast if casting or else assasins shot..then faltering blast.....</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I think if i start with snare doll i might be better off since i dont have that time of him nuking freely while the doll casts</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV>

[EQbe]

<DIV>I am a 42 Assassin. I was able to beat him after the patch. I have ebon gear, PGT, imbued bow. I used a poison debuff, T5 player made poison and AGI / STR Hex Dolls. I kited him with the bow the whole fight.</DIV>

[SanJ]

<DIV>I tried the champion at level 30 and failed.  However, I dinged 30 just minutes before arriving in the zone.  Likewise, I had no resist potions, no healing potions nor any stat modifying potions.  The champion (pre update when he was harder) was down to 23% health when I fell.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>My tactics were basically as follows:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>- Went into stealth mode (he couldn't see me nor could the mobs before him -- used this tactic all the way through)</DIV> <DIV>- Assasins Blade (training upgrade @ adept 2)</DIV> <DIV>- Caltrops (slow his speed)</DIV> <DIV>- Start HO, Vex to advance, complete with one of the attack DOTs we have</DIV> <DIV>- Kite - unloading all our ranged except the one that requires a position behind the mob </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The champion was REALLY good at closing my kiting distance gap, so several times, I would pause and use Caltrops to slow him again , rifle off the HO as listed above to get another DOT going and revert back to kiting using normal ranged until each of my special ranged were available.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Although I've been told only 1 poison  procs at a time, I had four active (all cheap store bought) and they visually appeared to proc much more frequently then when I had just one poison active--maybe coincidence?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I am confident that with a healing potion and a few state removal potions this mob is doable @ 30.  I'll try again soon.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks,<BR>Dash (30 Assassin - Najena) alt of Kalen</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV>

[Aimor N`Velahr]

<P>Beat him today. I had 47pct of my health remaining. [41st level assassin] This makes me 1-1-3 against him. I escaped the other 3 times and had him to 10pct health in my one loss.</P> <P>I guess I wasn't a very good bow kiter, but I was practicing. I started with condemning blade, assassin's mark, I began the heroic, debuffed, stunned, triggered my health regeneration potion, moored him, turned on bow autoattack since it seems to not break moor, then I specialed him with my assassin shot and double shot, closed the gap and repeated the heroic, debuff, cut attacks, then resumed kiting. He never threatened me.</P> <P>I did also have a rare red poison and a 460 mitigation potion plus a bunch of agility, strength, health, power increasers.</P> <P>-Aimor Velahr.</P>

[SalBlu]

<P>I beat him 2 nights ago as a lvl 27 Assassin.  It was a tough fight to tell the truth, but the way I did it was with an initiation of a stealth hit of Assassin's Blade Adept III, followed by Caltrops to slow, then kiting with bow.</P> <P>I've only been able to beat him once, and the time I won was VERY close.  I ended up going unconscious from a DOT still on me once the Champ died, but was able to get back up to claim a victory.</P> <P>Really not used to fighting him with the Assassin.  I'm used to rooting, stifling, nuking the crap out of the guy, then rooting, stunning and nuking him some more.  I usually wipe the floor with the champ.  Really tough with my Assassin.</P>

[MaNiaGG]

"I usually wipe the floor with the champ" Yes, like Wizards/Warlocks always do in 99% of the time..with any mob <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> <div></div>

[SalBlu]

<P>And I dont see a problem with that.  The champ still gets Wizards down to very low health due to root resists and dot attacks.  The pit champ is very resilient to our attacks.  He has also been given so very nasty spells to use, and I have been hit for 14k from a Dark Distortion from him many times, most often one shotting me in the onset of the fight.  Aside from that, you may not have known, but our solo ability has been severly changed now that mobs actually remember to range attack when rooted (dont know why they never did.. must be dumb mobs).  Mobs we were soloing a month ago are not even remotely soloable now.</P> <P>I can regularly beat the champ with my Assassin now however.  I beat him twice last night using the stealth strike/poison, assassin's mark, caltrops, kite method.  I do use health potions as well to help counteract the dot attacks he makes.</P>

[Klip]

<DIV>If you have the money, the easiest strat(at level 47 where I am) would be to buy any dot poison, bubble blood(legendary poison), and the stifle poison(psycotic resistance?), also get fulginate arrows as well. Start off with Spitting Viper, put on range auto attack, agi hex doll, then your normal kite sequence. You shouldn't have much problem if you have the stifle poison, it'll run out pretty quickly but he'll mostly be past half life by then. Just out last him while kiting and you're gold. </DIV>

[Skratttt]

<P>Beat Pit champ for 4th time....stiffle poison proc early and often enough so that i had him at 50% before i had lost 5% of my health...once it wore off pit champ strarted to nuke like mad but it was too late by then for him... even though i only got 1 pgt proc</P> <P>So for scouts the legendary Stifle poison = the win</P>

[Verlaine]

<div></div><div></div><p>I'm not sure if they made the champion weaker since this post was made but I took him out easily last night.  It was less then a 10 sec fight.  I used cloaked barb and then ran up and then used vulnerable mark.  Then HO using torment and agonizing wound master1.  Then I used my other 2 non positional cas.  Next I stunned him and used exposed atk master2.  Then Assassins blade Master2 and finally the gnoll ability and he was toast.  He hit me 2 times and landed 1 spell.  :smileyvery-happy:</p><p>It was accually harder for me to get passed the 2 spawn and the three spawn then it was to take out the champ.</p><p>Message Edited by wally501 on <span class="date_text">02-08-2006</span><span class="time_text">01:48 PM</span></p>

[scivias]

<div><span><blockquote><hr>wally501 wrote:<div></div><div></div><p>I'm not sure if they made the champion weaker since this post was made but ..</p><hr></blockquote>Yeah he was made a looooooooooooooooooot easier.. earlier he was neigh impossible for assassins, now he is a piece of cake. Gee, where did you find that 7 month old post anyway ..</span></div>

[Verlaine]

<div></div>LOL I had to do a search for it.  I know he was a pain for my paly to kill so I wanted to look up some strategies to take him out before I attempted him with my assassin.  When I killed him so fast I had to do a double take, due to all the horror stories I had read :smileytongue:

[Tideri]

<div>Yeah the Pit Champion is super easy now, I had no problems killing him the first time with the normal stealth, assassin's blade, assassin mark, debuffs, dots, cycle.  I didn't even HO and killed him before my health bar was orange.</div>